Thread by @SethAbramson

(🆚) NEW: PROOF takes you into the "war house" where Trump's pre-insurrection conclave was held. So many lies have been told about this event that no investigator could doubt its centrality to the events of January 6. I hope you'll subscribe, read, and RT. sethabramson.substack.com/p/trumps-pre-i…

(PS) Just finding the photos for this took a *while*. Trump doesn't really want people seeing the inside of this house, apparently, beyond one or two stock shots. Two shots here come from Trump Hotels, but the other four took a lot of hunting, and then I had to drop one...{cont.}

(PS2) ...for space. I linked to the Candace Owens photos because for some reason they wouldn't upload, but they're accessible via the article also. The Everson photos weren't linked to/uploaded, as they can, once you know where they are—which the article says—be readily found.

(PS3) I just find it incredible that the entire Trump political power structure met in the most expensive suite on the Eastern seaboard 15 hours before an armed rebellion *to discuss what was going to happen in advance* and major media and the FBI give exactly zero ****s. So far.

(PS4) I don't doubt major media is reading PROOF—I know it is; I can see it in the subscriptions—but the question is whether major media is waiting for the FBI to do something, or whether the FBI won't do anything until media pressure arrives. It all feels like a game of chicken.

(PS5) The reason the PROOF substack has been so successful (#2 nationally in Culture!) is because it's the most comprehensive coverage of the insurrection of any media outlet in the United States.

But that doesn't stop me from wanting major media to get its act together on this.

(PS6) The ongoing domestic insurgency isn't merely a matter of what happened on January 6. It informs Kevin McCarthy lying to Fox News live on-air—in the midst of an FBI investigation. It explains the GOP's voter suppression bills in 45+ states. It exposes huge problems...{cont.}

(PS7) in the FBI, Secret Service, DOD, and USCP. Every few days a major story drops—the FBI was working with the Proud Boys; a Trump stooge at DOD leaked intel; the USCP has suspended dozens; the Secret Service worked with Stop the Steal—but major media never connects any of it.

(PS8) Some issues are meta-issues—their import seeps into countless news streams that seem disconnected from one another unless they are curated. The pandemic is one example. Climate change is another example. Criminal justice inequalities are another.

The insurgency is another.

(PS9) One reason I love/believe in Substack is the range of work ongoing there is staggering.

All these meta-issues—from climate change to criminal justice reform to the pandemic to cryptocurrency—are the subject of stunning journalism on Substack. PROOF is the insurgency piece.

(PS10) The only downside I've found there—a small one—is that it still can be difficult, even with ample outlets on social media, to let a large number of people know that you *have* a Substack. So I hope that, if you ever have a chance to recommend PROOF to people, you'll do it.